Help Expand Merlin in French Guiana
More than 150 recordings of each bird species are needed to train Merlin to identify a species by sound, but only 20% of bird species worldwide have enough recordings in eBird and the Macaulay Library.
You can help Merlin Sound ID learn new species and expand to new areas by making sound recordings, uploading them to eBird checklists, and tagging the background species audible in the recording.

Target Species
Updated: 5 June 2025
These species do not yet have the required 150 recordings to start training Merlin Sound ID to learn the species. With your help, we can reach 150+ for each species and be ready to add them to Sound ID!
- Red-breasted Meadowlark (Leistes militaris)
- Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
- Golden-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris chrysoptera)
- Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta)
- Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)
- Ashy-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus pectoralis)
- Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
- Guianan Trogon (Trogon violaceus)
- Painted Parakeet (Pyrrhura picta)
- Masked Yellowthroat (Geothlypis aequinoctialis)
- Red-fan Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
- Amazonian Plain-Xenops (Xenops genibarbis)
- Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)
- Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)
- Variable Chachalaca (Ortalis motmot)
- Tiny Tyrant-Manakin (Tyranneutes virescens)
- Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea)
- Little Woodpecker (Dryobates passerinus)
- Buff-cheeked Greenlet (Pachysylvia muscicapina)
- Capuchinbird (Perissocephalus tricolor)
- Rufous-throated Antbird (Gymnopithys rufigula)
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove (Columbina minuta)
- Painted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum pictum)
- Straight-billed Hermit (Phaethornis bourcieri)
- Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans)
- Rufescent Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)
- Burnished-buff Tanager (Stilpnia cayana)
- Bronzy Jacamar (Galbula leucogastra)
- Collared Gnatwren (Microbates collaris)
- Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia)
- Pantanal Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae)
- Red-billed Pied Tanager (Lamprospiza melanoleuca)
- Variegated Flycatcher (Empidonomus varius)
- Point-tailed Palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri)
- White-vented Euphonia (Euphonia minuta)
- Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)
- White Bellbird (Procnias albus)
- Collared Puffbird (Bucco capensis)
- Wing-banded Antbird (Myrmornis torquata)
- Pale-tipped Tyrannulet (Inezia caudata)
- Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
- American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
- Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata)
- Bicolored Hawk (Astur bicolor)
- Yellow-breasted Crake (Laterallus flaviventer)